This is too cool. Chris Yeoh has created a virtual SFD 2007 tshirt based on the real ones in Second Life and people can pick them up online. Nice work Chris!
I love our community 🙂
SFD07 stickers
I forgot to show off our new sticker design. Kudos to Phil Harper who does most of our artwork. Great work Phil!
Note: the real sticker artwork also has the date on it 🙂
Buddhist conference this weekend in Sydney
So this is one of those blog posts where everyone finds out something new about a person 🙂 I have been studying Chan Buddhism casually since I was 15 and with a more serious focus in the past 2 years. Chan Buddhism is an big part of Shaolin Kung Fu which is what I started at aged 15 (after 3 years of Karate training). I really love my Kung Fu and Chan studies. They promote a sense of purpose, clarity and self-responsibility that I try to reflect in my life.
Anyway, the reason I’m bringing this up is because in Sydney this weekend is a large Buddhist conference called Change you mind, change the world with loads of different Buddhist schools coming together to learn and share. If there are people out there who read my blog interested in Buddhism, it would be a great experience for you! Several of my teachers are participating including the head of my school who is a major inspiration, Abbot Shi Yuan Zhi on the second day.
Anyone interested in studying either Chan Buddhism or Shaolin martial arts can check out my school here. I have looked around at loads of schools and always came back to this one. There are schools in Sydney, Canberra, Wollongong and the Blue Mountains.
Software Freedom Day online shop is up!
I’ve been working on putting up the online Software Freedom Day shop, which at this point includes tshirts for the event and CD packs of The Open CD. Teams running SFD events (that register prior to the 31st July) get a 50% discount so spread the word! 🙂
We also have more and better free schwag for teams than ever before including balloons, CDs, shirts, stickers and more. We also have more sponsors than ever before but more on than soon 🙂
We already have 125 teams registered from all around the world and it is only July! This year is looking to be huge!
More information soon to come 🙂 Comments on the shirt design are welcome.
links for 2007-07-09
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“The NSW Department of Education and Training (DET) may increase the penetration of Linux on its 165,000 desktop fleet because open source is “clearly an industry trend”.” – An old article but I spent ages looking for it and wanted to tag it for future re
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“A person is a person because of other people. I hope the principle of Ubuntu becomes the world’s password. Love of self leads to love of all” Ubuntu mug by Samuel L Jackson. The man is just too cool 🙂
Report on the Education Expo
Two weeks ago a band of dedicated SLUGers set up a Linux Australia booth at the enormous NSW Education Expo. The event attracts around 8000 attendees, mostly students, parents and teachers, so it was a great opportunity to take Linux and FOSS to the masses! We have set up a booth at this event for 3 years now and are very popular. The adults want to know more about this “free software” stuff, the kids love the games and job opportunities and the teachers learn more tools for education and learning. On the booth we had Red Hat calendars that were popular, computers to demonstrate, stickers, handouts (including information specific to FOSS in education), penguins and shirts. We had Ubuntu & Edubuntu, as well as slightly dated Debian, Fedora and Suse to give away as well as some leftover lca2007 stuff.
On Sunday we had the OLPC there for one day which was vey popular. A few school girls who had done a school project on the OLPC thought this was awesome and walked away saying “Linux is cool”. Hopefully that’ll be a few more in the workforce 🙂
A huge thanks to all the volunteers that helped out:
- Sridhar Dhanapalan
- Grant Parnell
- Andreas Fischer
- Martin Visser
- Jeremy Visser
- Rodger Dean
- Richard Hayes
- Robert Morris
Also many thanks to Red Hat Australia for providing some schwag, Everything Linux for providing stickers, some CDs and shirt printing on the spot for $10, Craige McWhirter for providing two great demonstration computers, and Waugh Partners for providing loads of printing and fluffy penguins.
Below are some photos that were taken with the OLPC, unfortunately we didn’t remember to take a proper camera, but these are cool 🙂
Not just email, 3d email!
Now I’ve seen everything, this is so weird I just can’t even begin to explain.
Your email pulses with fun and excitement like never before!…
We let you literally feed your spam to the sharks, and that is very gratifying. You get the feeling that, for once, you’re getting back at the spammers.
80% geek!
Heh, these things are usually really dumb, but I enjoyed this one 🙂
Software Freedom Day 2007 – 83 teams registered!
It is almost 3 months away from Software Freedom Day 2007, and we already have 83 teams registered! This year a lot of work went into the new registration system to make it easier for teams and for everyone else to find information, see all the teams, and get a feeling for what a truly global and participatory event this is. Check out which continents all the teams are from, it is fairly evenly balanced. As usual, Australia is doing well with 10 teams already registered!
Teams that want special SFD goodies including CDs, shirts, stickers and balloons need to be registered by the 31st July, so get in soon and register your team. Last year we had about 200 teams all up (including all the ones that registered after the free goodies date had passed), so we hope to have 300 teams this year!
The new Software Freedom International Board which includes 3 top SFD team leaders from 2006 is totally awesome, being extremely active, enthusiastic and full of new ideas.
Rock on and remember, freedom isn’t just for geeks, so let’s all get out there and help spread the important ideas of software freedom. I’ve got a short “About Software Freedom” page for anyone interested.
The New Zealand Open Source Awards!
Don Christie of Catalyst in New Zealand has asked me to be on the panel of judges for the New Zealand Open Source Awards, which is pretty exciting!
This looks like a great initiative, and certainly something we should look at doing here too. Jeff has already made the suggestion, so lets make it happen!
Rock on New Zealand!